Ignaz Maybaum

Ignaz Maybaum ( born March 2, 1897 in Vienna, † 1976 in London ) was a German - British rabbi.

Life

Ignaz Maybaum was born in 1897 in Vienna and studied at the Academy in Berlin for the Science of Judaism, where he was ordained as a rabbi in 1926. He was rabbi in Bingen, Frankfurt ( Oder) and Berlin and was a pupil of Franz Rosenzweig.

In 1935, he was arrested by the Gestapo and had to spend six weeks in prison before he was released. In 1939 he left Germany and went on a Kindertransport to England.

His mother and sister were murdered in the Holocaust.

In 1949 he became rabbi of Edgware and District Reform Synagogue.

From 1956 until the beginning of his retirement in 1963 he lectured in homiletics and Jewish religion at the Leo Baeck College.

He was active in interreligious dialogue, to his students was also Nicholas de Lange.

Although Maybaum wrote many different considerations to the Holocaust, he is primarily known by his assertion that the Holocaust took only happened because the Jews had been punished for the sins of the rest of the world by God. He brought the total of Jews in connection with the figure of the " suffering servant " in Isaiah, chapter 52 and 53 This listing has been discussed controversially.

On 21 March 2011 was moved a stumbling block for the rabbi Ignaz Maybaum in Frankfurt ( Oder).

Works

• Creation and guilt. Vallentine, Mitchell, London 1969.
• The Face of God after Auschwitz. Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam 1965.
• The Jewish mission. Clarke, London, 1949.
• The Jewish Home, zus with L. V. Snowman. Clarke, London, 1945.
• Synagogue and Society. Clarke, London, 1944.
• Man and catastrophe. Allenson, London, 1941.
• New Youth and ancient belief. Philo -Verl., Berlin 1936.
• Party Liberated Jews. Philo Verlag, Berlin, 1935.
• The two forms of moral action and its relation to religion in the system of Schleiermacher